Charlie Savage of the New York Times uses Adrian Lamo as the sole source for an extremely dubious story on how Manning supposedly gave the cables to Wikileaks via physical hand-off. Contra what he told CNN on July 30, Lamo says he doesn’t have chat logs because his hard drive was “taken” by the FBI.

Department of Justice serves a subpoena on Twitter demanding information for individuals currently or formerly associated with Wikileaks, including Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Julian Assange. It also seeks the same information for Bradley Manning and for WikiLeaks’ Twitter account (PDF).

December 11

David House visits Manning at Quantico brig

December 10

Forensic psychiatrist recommends Manning remain under suicide watch for one week. The following week, the psychiatrist again recommends he be removed from POI watch. The Brig Commander once again refuses to do so.

Uber tells Wired he first spoke with Lamo “one or two days before Lamo had his first face-to-face meeting with federal agents, which was on May 25.”

July 2010

Lamo begins working as a confidential informant for CCIU Special Agent Antonio Edwards of Army CID.

July 30

Lamo tells CNN’s Ashley Fanz that he knew of one person in the military who had helped Bradley Manning but wouldn’t elaborate. Says he no longer has chat transcripts because he “gave” his hard drive to the FBI.

Poulsen tells Glenn Greenwald that he published all of the chats that Lamo gave him, with the exception of “Manning discussing personal matters that aren’t clearly related to his arrest, or apparently sensitive government information that I’m not throwing up without vetting first.”

Greenwald compares Wired’s published chats with the Washington Post’s, and finds there are things that are neither “personal matters” nor “sensitive government information,” which Wired nonetheless withheld.

Glenn Greenwald interviews Lamo, who says he informed Manning he was an ordained minister who would treat Manning’s conversations as a confession, which would compel Lamo by law to keep them confidential

Comment appears in Xeni Jardin Boing Boing article, alleging that Poulsen and Lamo “worked their target, Bradley Manning, for days — in co-operation with the FBI and US Army CID,” classic “COINTELPRO tactics.”

“The only reason to even think that PFC Manning was ‘risking lives’ is the unconfirmed innuendo made public by Adrian Lamo who has every reason in the world to justify the breach of trust he committed by willfully initiating a clandestine interrogation of PFC Manning,” says the comment.

June 11

Special Agent Antonio Edwards meets with Lamo in Carmichael, California

Assange allegedly sends an email to Lamo requesting copies of the chats to aide in Manning’s defense. Lamo refuses, telling Poulsen that Manning’s attorney “can get them by discovery like everyone else.”

Manning’s pre-trial confinement begins, and presumably ties to the date when they first assessed what they had on Manning’s seized computer

May 26

Poulsen asks Lamo for the chat logs

Lamo agrees to provide them if Poulsen will drive to Sacramento and pick them up, provided he embargoes them until Lamo grants permission

Former Army counterintelligence agent Timothy Webster says Lamo called him to ask a hypothetical question about Manning, and that this was the first contact Lamo had in reporting Manning. Lamo confirms this account to AP.

Latest possible date for knowingly exceeding his authorized access to obtain “more than 50 classified United States Department of State cables” and willfully transmitting them per the charge sheet.

May 23 or 24

“Security pro” Chet Uber gets a phone call from Lamo,who says he has “received classified documents from a U.S. Army intelligence analyst named Bradley Manning and wanted advice about what to do.”

Uber puts him in touch with the former DOJ head of computer crimes, Mark Rasch. Uber suggests Lamo told him him about having received emails–but when Uber refers Lamo to Rasch, he describes ongoing AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) chats.

May 23

Lamo begins “cooperating with federal agents,” he tells AOL, after he “passed on what he knew to his ex, who happened to work for Army counterintelligence.”

May 21

According to testimony given by Special Agent Alfred Williamson of CCIU during Manning’s Article 32 hearing, a Manning user account is created on a FOB Hammer supply room NIPRnet computer that Manning used.

First chats begin between Lamo and Manning, according to Wired.

Lamo tells Greenwald he lost the PGP key and never decripted emails from Manning, but sent him an invitation to chat over AIM anyway and the two began their alleged exchanges

[According to testimony given during Manning’s Article 32 hearing on Dec. 21] Lamo has Manning contact him via AIM

May 12

Adrian Lamo photographed at his parent’s house for use in upcoming Wired story by Kevin Poulsen

May 7

Adrian Lamo discharged from mental hospital. [He testified this was when he was discharged during Manning’s Article 32 hearing.

May

Manning demoted after an assault according to Army spokesman, who says Manning was not facing early discharge. This contradicts what Manning ostensibly said to Lamo in chat logs

April 28

Adrian Lamo’s backpack with his antidepressants is stolen. He calls the police, who have him involuntarily committed to a mental facility under state law allowing “the temporary forced hospitalization of those judged dangerous or unable to care for themselves.”

Latest possible date for having unauthorized possession of photos related to the national defense, knowingly exceeding his authorized access on SIPRnet, willfully transmitting it, and intentionally exceeding his authorized access, all in relation to the Collateral Murder video per the Charge Sheet.

Earliest possible date for accessing the Rejkjavik 13 cable (the date is obviously taken from the date of the cable) per Charge Sheet (Spec. 3)

January 9

A “read me” text file is created on an SD card [the one that CCIU agents will later find in Manning’s aunt’s residence] that is essentially a cover letter explaining what to do with the classified reports and how they remove “the fog of war” and reveal “the true nature of 21st Century asymmetric warfare.”

January 5

CDNE Afghanistan (91,000 approx) [Afghan War Logs] and CDNE Iraq reports (400,000 approx) [Iraq War Logs] are put on an SD card [that CCIU agents will later claim was found in Manning’s aunt’s residence]

2009:

November 24:

Per chat logs, Manning said he first started working with Wikileaks after release of 9/11 pager messages, which was first announced on November 24, 2009

U.S. Army Counterintelligence Center prepares a classified report placing WikiLeaks on “the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States.” That Report discussed ways to destroy WikiLeaks’ reputation and efficacy, and emphasized creating the impression that leaking to it is unsafe.